Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-04
GREAT HOUSES.


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', Some that -Are a Drug ", the Market.
fChlcago Rarnblerl ~
The splendid marble home builtin
Chicago by Perry FL. Smith is to be
turned into big apartment house. The
main walls will be extended both west
and south SO that it is expected struct-
ure will finally be made that will contain
twenty separate flats. This marble
palace was the finest in the west until
WILDER +. Storey began on his enorm-
GUS building down on tho boulevard. I
don't suppose there is to-day any
finished home in Chicago, except the
one belonging, to Potter Palmer, that
cost SO much to build and furnish. Up
to five years ago it was the finest in the
country outside of New York. Like
the A. L. Stewart mansion and the
John Taylor Johnston house on Fifth
avenue, New York, it was built of
marble. 1t is only within the past
three or four years, and since the new
| fashioned ideas of architecture came
into vogue, that millionaire who had
q desire for palace to live in would
build of anything else. This was true
when Storey started his 100000 castle
on Drexel boulevard. Perry Smiths
residence on Pine street was not only
the most expensively built house in the
city, butwas also the costliest furnished.
| IT, is S11a5 x,,;f1, {,oor,,o, &c III ,o,,l,
from the famous art sales of the old
world, including tapestry chairs that
were bought for $500 apiece, mosaic
tables that cost in the thousands, the
bronzes, porcelains, and works OF art
worth thousands more, Yet Perry II.
Smith when he died left an estate that
probably did not reach 81, 1000, 000. The
Keane wheat deal, in which the million.
aire lawyer and railroader had large
interest, and other unlucky operations
which proved costly because of his
shattered health, more than cut in
twain fortune that had once easily
authorized the building of palace tc
live in. The widow now lives almost
all the time in Boston with her married
daughter. The sons do not care tc
live in the big establishment alone. O1
course there is no purchaser for 6
house which needs the fortune of {
millionaire and over to keep it going
comfortably. 1t is the old and familiar
| folly of building residence so costly
that the money put in it can never be
gotten out except by turning it into {
hotel or an apartment house. The
Storey estate is still puzzling over the
great caravansary Mt Fiftieth street
The great palatial residences at New
York, like the Lennox, the Stewart
the Tilden, and others, were turned
into libraries or galleries, perhaps
largely because they could not b,
turned into anything else. The Willard
house couldn't be sold when its owne,
went broke. It could, of course, bt
transferred, but the benefciaries wer,
glad to transfer it back just as sool
as Willard had little money re
covered. The architectural styl,
changes so quickly that place built b,
one millionaire in the SOS does no
suit another millionaire in the '7O's no
does the most magnificent house i'm
aginable within the '7O's suffice for til,
rich man of the SOS. The only happ,
fate that can come to private palaces il
this country is to burn down. Tha
alone apparently saves them the hu
initiation of boarding mistresses or from
being DETAINED at last by the depart
ment-house craze.
DRUM MAKING